Archive for the 'Bumbershoot' Category

21 Sep

Seattle And Bumbershoot 2011 Photos Here Now!

Hello again, family, friends, and everyone else too. The pictures from our Seattle 2011 trip are now online! We had a great time as usual. There are Seattle pix, Bumbershoot Festival pix, and just some other weird pix we took on the trip. Note: These photos came from my cell phone camera. There may be other [...]

13 Sep

Seattle And Bumbershoot 2011 – Part 3

Did you miss the first two parts? Read part one here and part two here. And there will be a bunch of pictures soon too… Monday September 5 Last day of the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival and the routine is familiar. A bit of food in the room and then we took the monorail [...]

11 Sep

Seattle And Bumbershoot 2011 – Part 2

This is the second part of the trip recap. To read part one, click here. Saturday September 3 Mid-morning we took the convenient monorail over to the Seattle Center, the site of the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival. Today was the first day of this amazing event. Doors opened at 11:00 but we got there [...]

08 Sep

Seattle And Bumbershoot 2011 – Part 1

We just got back from our annual trek to Seattle for the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival (and more). I’ll post some pictures soon, but in the meantime here is a short synopsis of what we did. Enjoy, and maybe we’ll see you there next year… Wednesday August 31 We flew to Seattle (Southwest Airlines) and arrived in the [...]

22 Sep

Seattle And Bumbershoot 2010 Photos Here Now!

Hello again, family, friends, and everyone else too. The pictures from our Seattle 2010 trip are now online! We had a great time as usual. There are Seattle pix, Bumbershoot Festival pix, and just some other weird pix we took on the trip. Note: These photos came from three different cameras: a real digital camera [...]

18 Sep

Seattle 2010 And Bumbershoot Part 3

Sunday September 5

Day two of the festival and I am loving it! No surprise there. Same routine, we took the monorail to the Festival and grabbed a snack at the hospitality area. Our first show to see was David Bazan at the KEXP secret lounge. While we waited, we heard a few songs by The Tripwires which

17 Sep

Seattle 2010 And Bumbershoot Part 2

First off, part one is here in case you missed it.

Friday September 3

And a happy birthday to the daughter too. We started the day, as with the past few, by having a light breakfast in the room. Then we were outta there, to walk a few blocks to the monorail station. We took the 90-second train to the Seattle Center, because it was the day before the Bumbershoot Music and Arts festival. The day before? So what, you say? Ha. Yeah. Well, they open up the visual art exhibits a day early (for one thing), so we got a great chance to check all the art a day early before all the crowds were there. And it was

08 Sep

Seattle 2010 And Bumbershoot Part 1

We just got back from our annual trek to Seattle for the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival (and more). I’ll post some pictures soon, but in the meantime here is a short synopsis of what we did. Enjoy, and maybe we’ll see you there next year… Tuesday August 31 We took the Super Shuttle to [...]

26 Jul

It’s Almost Bumbershoot – See You There!

It’s only 40 days until this year’s Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival (Sept. 4-6) !! Any thoughts about it so far? Who are you going to see? Who do you think we should see? Almost every act has been announced by now, so I won’t list them all. It’s all on the web site. Here [...]

28 Nov

Pictures! Now! 2009 Seattle And Bumbershoot

It’s true! After only a couple months, I finally posted some pictures from our 2009 Seattle trip! We attended the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival, of course, and did some other fun stuff around our second-favorite city too. Larry and Robin (friends) were with us most of the trip and Mama O and her friends [...]

30 Sep

Seattle 2009 And Bumbershoot – Part 2

The tale of how we spent out Seattle vacation continues. The saga of the first four days can be found here. For the rest of the trip in all it’s glory, continue on, oh my humble and dear readers… Saturday September 5 After a year of waiting, today was finally the first real day of [...]